Oigae cutter



(o Model.)

C. A. PAAS.

GIGAR GUTTER.

l 10.251925 Y Patented Maylmaz.

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CHARLES A. FAAS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

-CIGAR-CUTTER.Y

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 257,925, dated May 16, 1882.

Application tiled February 23, 1885.. (No model.)

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. FAAS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and Stateof New York, have invented an Improvement in Cigar-Cutters, of which the following is a specitic-ation.

This cutteris a small portable article that is adapted to out oft" the end ot' a cigar, so as to allow the smoke to pass through the tip freely. This cutter will usually be made ornamental and adapted to be hung on thewatchchain as a charm.

I make use ot` a V-shaped sliding cutter within a case, and provided with a spring for returning it to a normal position, and a cutter-stock upon which the finger can be pressed for operating the cutter. The end ot' the cigar is placed into a flaring cup at the side of the case, with an opening into the case, and the cutter is moved'against the inner end of the cup so as to notch the cigar end.

In the drawings, Figure I is an elevation of a single cutter. Fig. 2 is a section ofthe same vertically, and Fg.3 is an inverted horizontal .section at wx. Fig. lIrepresen'ts a cutter with two tip-cups. Fig. 5 is an elevation partially 1n section, and Fig. 6 an inverted pl'anof the cutter with a V-shaped case.

The cutter a is V`shaped, and it is adapted to be moved endwise within the case b by a spring or springs, c, andin thecase there is an opening at one of the angles, with a.tip-cup adaped to receive the end ot' the cigar, and the V-shaped cutter a is at that angle and can be pushed along in the onse by pressure upon the outer end ofthe stock of the cutter, so that the said cutter not only takes off the tip end oftheicigar placed in the tip-cup, but it also notches the end, so as to produce a better opening for the smoke to pass through.

In all the figures except Figs. 5 and 6 the case is shown as square and hollow, so as to contain the helical expansible spring, and there is an abutment, d, within the case for the end ot' the spring to rest against.

In Fig. 2 theV-shapedsingle cutter extends down from the square stock, so that it will slide between one corner ofthe abutment d and the `case when pushed down to cut the cigar-tip.

In Fig. 4 there are two cutters extending down from the opposite angles of the square passed through the slot into the square cutter-stock to prevent the spring forcing the cutter-stock out ofthe case. In Fig. 1 this s1ot3 is made L-shaped, and the pin 4c is pivoted in the angle ofthe cutterstock, so that when the spring is compressed the pin can be swung around into the horizontal part of the slot to hold the cutter-stock and cutter in the re.- tracted position within the case, so as to lessen the length ot'` the entire article and adapt the same t0 be suspended from the watch-chain as a charm.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the stock of the cutter, iustead ot' being square, is V-shaped, and the case is also V-shuped, the cutter sliding within the two parts of thecase, and there are angletubes at o. into which are placed the helical springs that act upon projections at the edges of the cuttelstock to raise the cutter after it has been pressed down to cut off the end of a cigar. The suspending ring or loop s allows the cutter to be connected with the watchchain.

Any desired form of catch may he employed to hold the cutter down when not in use.

' I do not claim a V-shaped cutter at. the end ofa pivoted lever acting with a cup for the cigar-tip; neither do I claim atuhe in whicha cutter slides, the said tube being supported by a base and having a. spring below the cutter.

The combination, with the square case, ot a. hollow square tube sliding endwise within that case, a spring within the sliding tube, a cutter at one angle of the sliding tube, and a oupon the case opening into the same and adapted to receive the cigar-tip, substantially as specified.

GEO. T. PINGKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

